Thanks for Thinking About our Health, Pikachu
In the last two weeks, smartphone users have been consumed by the ability of their phone to transport them into an augmented reality world that mimics the Pokémon adventures created by Nintendo in the ’90s.
Such is the craze to catch Pokémon, that we’ve even noticed grown adults running around Washington Square Park to catch “clefairy,” a rare Pokémon. The game includes goodies like eggs that you can hatch into a Pokémon. So how do you make the eggs hatch? By walking certain distances that registers on your phone’s accelerometer. As medical students, we believe those in healthcare need to tune in and pay attention to this ’90s comeback.
This “healthification” of a game is absolutely fascinating. We can intuitively see that this game is encouraging people to be active, when you observe all the people, especially kids who would otherwise be staying home playing video games, out and about in the park playing Pokemon.
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